UFOs spotted over county

Wednesday 21st January 2009, 12:30PM GMT.

Star reader Robson Bolam photographed this object flying over Donnington

Star reader Robson Bolam photographed this object flying over Donnington

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    devon salopian

    somebody sees some temporary traffic lights and courtesy of the star it is a ufo

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    Village Boy

    Here we go again! from those fuzzy photos, how can it be anything but ‘unidentified’? Please go and find some news!

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    Jeff Leppard

    It’s just a bit of fluff on the camera lens. Rather obvious don’t you think?

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    darren

    maybe the military should be looking into not only this but the orange coloured balls of light that we are still seeing over west shropshire. again yesterday we saw them again, and yet again they moved like no known miltary or commercial aircraft in service.
    something is happening!

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    Dickster

    That doesn’t look much like the kind of skies we’ve been having with our recent weather…any chance of following this up and at least asking Mr Bolam when he claims to have taken the photograph? I’d suggest anything other than recently means that this isn’t really ‘news’…

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    Suzanne

    Lets look at the facts – windy day, Donnington, to me it looks like a disgarded black sack that has been swepted up by the breeze and carried away to be probed. Ha ha!

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    Jelly

    Hmmm isn’t it dark at 7pm? The so called picture is taken in the daylight! There’s obviously no news lately is there…?

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    Andy M

    It’s a bird flying. Its wings are blurred but visible

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    Mike

    You people are just UFO sceptics!

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    Peter

    ‘Phil Hoyle, a member of the UFO Investigations and Research Unit based in Shrewsbury, said Donnington was one of the country’s top hot spots for sightings, and added: “This sounds like a definite sighting of a UFO.”’

    Well he would say that wouldn’t he! He is part of a self-styled ‘Unit’ with no official status whatsoever, and wishes to believe in UFO sightings!

    What possible evidence does he have to regard this as a ‘definite’ sighting?

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    spindrift

    I understand, Suzanne, that the flyaway black sack actually originated from Harlescott Grange. The occasional shower of diazepam tablets and sharps gave the game away…

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    JIM

    I LOVE THE FACT THAT PEOPLE WILL TAKE THE TIME TO
    SEND IN THEIR KEEN OBSERVATIONS- WITHOUT REALLY READING THE STORY – LIKE THE SO BRILLIANT REMARK BY DETECTIVE JELLY, WHO FAILS TO NOTICE THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN BY ROBSON BOLAM, BUT THE 7PM REMARK WAS MADE BY MARK YOUNG..SO QUICK TO DISCOUNT A STATEMENT- IF THE UNIVERSE IS NEVER ENDING, DOESN’T THAT MEAN THERE ARE A NEVER ENDING AMOUNT OF POSSIBILITIES ? INCLUDING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS FAR ADVANCED TO OUR OWN/OR TO QUOTE THE MOVIE “THE SANTA CLAUS” – “JUST BECAUSE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN A MILLION DOLLARS, DOESN’T MEAN IT DOESN’T EXIST”- EVER HEARD OF S.E.T.I.?

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    Gary

    You guys and gals would be believers if you saw one hovering silently at about 27 meters away from you, I guarantee it. And what of the recessed lights that I witnessed rotating round it from within? And then watch it rise straight up until out of sight to boot? Birds and blotches indeed! There is something going on. All sightings cannot be explained away folks.

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    Hungover

    Jim. Keep it down mate. No need to shout I have got a bit of a head this morning. PS Cap locks is third up on the left.

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    Jelly

    Jim, ‘Detective Jelly’ would like to know where the 7′O’clock sighting picture is… ha ha ha. You must be so wound up to use CAPITALS.

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    Patrick

    “They all had a red or green light flickering and occasionally there was a bigger brighter white light flying with them”
    Sounds like aircraft (port red/stbd green/nose light /’headlight’ white)
    Prob helicopters as suggested.

    The photo is a buzzard I reckon !!!

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    Crazynutta

    I am on the fence with this one. In some way, I agree with Gary, that nobody believes that there is life beyond earth, but I also think that it may be something just flew. No, wait, I TOTALLY believe that that photo, (Cough, Cough) Is not to the creative standards that the industry would be proud of. I often see UFO’S (Well, flashing lights, no UFO’s) from my windows, and their is tiny shadows of people, that are definetly not on a plane!:)

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    Troy Tempest

    I do like the way that these visitors from outer space go to the trouble of ensuring that their spacecraft meet the legal requirements for aircraft flying in the UK by showing red and green lights and a single white light at the front. How thoughtful is that…..? Probably because they were flying near to an airfield………

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    TRUTH

    This is no lie its true but not in the form of ufo’s. these are man made crafts which will become the new weapons of the future. the only reasons they are being sighted is testing their new technology in the open with people knowing its their. google SCALAR weapons and you will release this is no joke.

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    Thomas stevenson

    wow great sighting !!

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    Lenny

    I was on the M54 last night at 7:50pm heading towards Telford and I saw a light at approx 500 feet in the sky.

    The light was continuous. The light tracked my car for approx 3 mins and did not deviate horizontally or vertically from my car.

    I know it’s a bit naughty but as traffic was very light I was travelling at about 90mph and the light did not deviate.

    The light at one point turned off slowly like a generator had been shut down, and then gradually came back on about 30 seconds later.

    Eventually it turned off again and stayed off.

    Both my Father and Brother are professional Pilots and I have grown up seeing lots of different aircraft both fixed wind and none fixed wing.

    I also fly both radio controlled Helicopters and Aeroplanes and was thinking how difficult it would be to hoax flying at that speed and to track a car without deviating for a few minuets.

    Whatever this was it did not have any navigation lights or strobes which are required by all Civil Aircraft.

    I would say that the light was not an aircrafts landing light unless the aircraft was aiming at my car and flying sideways at 90mph.

    I am a Computer Analyst and by nature I am a very sceptical person, but this was definitely odd.

    I suppose it could have been a military helicopter with a rear facing light, but seems odd that it did not have any navigation lights or strobes active.

    Who knows….

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    lazyladyizannoyed

    O.K. Lets get to the truth people. Nobody knows what this object was, or is, nobody knows anything about this matter. You can’t say there is no life beyond earth, you cant say there is because, nobody is actually from another world so there is no proof. Lenny, nobody wants to hear your life story and Thomas, you can’t tell anything from thet picture.

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